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Back to: Spain car hire Seville Holy week, Semana Santa Seville, Seville Spain
Holy Week in Seville
If you had
to choose the most notable out of the Holy Week in Seville it would
be the carvings of the Virgin given a royal welcome. They are beautiful
baroque images with silver or gold crowns, embroidered robes and
velvet tunics that only show the face and hands.
Almost sixty processions parade through the city of Seville, the largest number in the whole of Andalusia, organised by fraternities related to a church, district or simply a social category. About fifty people dress up as Nazarenes during the so-called Major Week. Some do it as a penitence and others, the bearers, carry on the processional floats on their shoulders.
One of the most important moments of the Holy Week, is the Virgen de la Macarena leaving the church at midnight on Holy Thursday.
Fuente: "www.spain.info"
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